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  It is possible to use some Unicode HTML entities, however, browser support has always been spotty. In my personal experience, more numeric entities are supported than the character entities. Your experience may vary, of course.

We're certainly not against non-English contributions. However, you may receive more helpful feedback by posting code that does not contain extended characters.

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¹ - Update: Rewote this point, due to Chatterbox feedback. Thanks, jarich.

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• Markup in the Monastery

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